The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 26
‘You must not stop an instant,’ said the horse.
Who acts: You · What happens: not stop, say · To what, where: instant, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stop | advmod |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 instant | det |
| 7 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stop | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | must | You | a instant | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector instant=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the horse | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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